Paris

I am a French teacher at a local high school, and I brought the CD in to show my class some of the sights which we had discussed in lesson. They all enjoyed seeing the pictures and video of Paris, especially trying to decipher what the people in the background of the video are saying! This was a nice way to teach class and keep my students interested.

I went to Europe over the summer and fell in love with Paris and its' architecture. This CD is great! The IPIX images are as close to 'being there' as you can get. The video on the elevator of the Eiffel Tower is amazing!

Can't wait for CD's of other cities!

I stumbled across this companies' web site looking for photos of new architecture in Paris (doing a report for Contemporary Architecture Class). Not only did this CD provide me with the pictures i needed, but the IPIX virtual reality images were awesome! A definate benefit to my presentation. My professor was very impressed and was interested in getting the cd to use in class! Bottom line- if you want a very cool, very innovative way to look at architecture, buy this cd!

Zagat's reviews are less formal than the rigorous Michelin Red Guide, sharing the reviewers' more subjective and personal opinions. I carry both -- they fit nicely in a pocket or camera bag -- as well as the French Menu Master whenever I'm looking for a Paris meal.

The ratings are stiff in this book, therefore you can gauranteed to have a good meal at any restaurant with a 17+ for a food rating. I've been to Paris numerous times, but had the best meals after buying this guide in a Parisian bookstore. The ratings in the New York Zagats seem too lenient compared to the Parisian edition. In the Parisian edition, you will find many food ratings with 10 or lower (some even with 5), which is unseen in the New York edition. If you're ready to eat great food, get this guide and eat at any restaurant with a 21 food rating or greater and it will be equivalent a 27+ in New York City! Bon Apetite!

I have taken a Zagat Survey book with me to every major city I have traveled to. The descriptions are always on the mark, and the variety of restaurants is great. In the Paris 2000 edition, you will find the widest range of places to dine, from high class to street cafe, they're all here. It also helped me weed out some of the places mentioned in other travel books. Paris is a great place wth wonderful food, and this book will help guide you to the very best places! For other general information on trvel in Paris, try the Eyewitness Paris book! Enjoy!

I really enjoyed this book because of the way the author (Randi Reisfeld) had 'Cher' narrate it-using phrases from the movie("as if, whatever, baldwin, and betty.) All the caracters seemed realistic- like real '90's teens. The only part I did not agree with was when Cher saw a girl in her boyfriend's arms. I believe that, in real life, a girl would have gone up and questioned him being with that girl. Other than that, I believe the book was texted very well. The story was very realilistic

I injoyed this book I don't read alot but I just couldn't stopreading this one. It put the perfect picture in my head of what wasgoing on, I could get a image in my head for every part of the book. Irequst that more young adults should read this book.I give it two thubs up!

In this book i almost cried.I was so touched by it. All of what cher goes through to see Josh and she sees the unexpected.It was very moving,you can feel what shes feeling,you can picture everything.All of the events that happen in the story are really motivating.This is the best clueless book.I simply loved it.

If you are a total beginner with the method and feel unconfortable with densly written text, then you may have difficulties reading the book.
It would have been much better if the book had the same content with a little bit more space between paragraphs. If you read a lot you can understand what I am saying.
On the other hand to be fair the book covers the method very well dealing with all the important parts of the method.
The book only covers the fundamentals of the method and nothing more so don't expect to read about treatment of elastodynamic problems, nonlinear problems and other advanced stuff.
Boundary element method introductory texts are not many, and this one is surely the best yet. Buy it.

This book covers all the basic (and simplest) applications of BEM, i.e. 2-D potential and 2-D elastostatics in a comprehensive way, both form the analytical and the numerical point of view. Although its dense writting can be tiresome in certain cases for the reader, this is overcome if one tries to solve some basic simple problems, writting code in his own PC (e.g. torsion oc circular cross-section), along with studying. Anyway, BE method is not so easy to grasp and comprehend quickly, so it needs some time. Of the very positive features of the book is the section which covers discontinuous linear elements, for by these one can solve the Dirichlet problem for naturally-non-smooth boundaries, avoiding gradient approximation and the disk which accompanies the book (Fortran code for 2-D potential problems and 2-D elastostatics).

The basic concepts and the fundamentals are clearly explained in this book. This book devotes entirely on 2D potential and 2D elasticity problems. It has a good number of interesting examples which also includes problems with discontinuous boundary conditions (normally not available in other textbooks). The results are well detailed, well-explained and compared with reference solutions. These examples will be very helpful for beginners. This book shows formulations using discontinuous singular elements. The diskette with the computer codes are a big plus.

I thought this was the best Paris guide...until I saw a better one...and then a still better one. The practical information given in this book is quite adequate, especially the "Where to Eat and Drink" part, which tips some inexpensive yet good restaurants (e.g. "La Galerie" in Montmartre, which I'll return one day!), though the address of Musée Rodin is incorrectly given as "66" rue de Varenne (the museum is not likely to be missed as a result of this error, though). There is a clear and detailed local streetplan of various parts of Paris, but surprisingly there is not a streetplan of Paris as a whole, and the local streetplan does not cover far enough. Photos appear on almost every page, but they are small and fragmentary, and as such, this book is not a good choice to keep as souvenir after a trip to Paris. To me, the best Paris guide is the _Insight Guide Paris_--very *parisien*! Another good one is the _Dorling Kindersley's Eyewitness Guides Paris_. Both are worthy of their respective titles. (Of course, so is the "Spiral Guide" worthy of *its* title.)

My wife and I used this travel guide extensively while in Paris. It served as our bible, tour guide, and street map. It is laid out in a very clearly and the sprial binder makes it very easy to flip to any page. It is filled with clear, color pictures and maps. The guide is broken down into various regions throughout Paris with each section highlighting Must See Attractions, and then At Your Leisure sites that are also in the area. It also has a very nice reference on how to see a region in one day. A subway map is on the inside back cover, and a regional map of Paris is on the front inside cover. Other nice features are sections called 'Finding Your Feet' - which provides great information for when you first arrive in London (either by plane, train, boat, etc..) and a 'Practicalities' seciton that talks about currency, clothes sizes, basic French phrases, etc.

What really made this book stand out compared to other Paris travel guides was it included detailed street maps of these regions. Those proved invaluable for us once we started walking around the area. The book is compact, and fit inside my coat pocket comfortably.

My only gripe is that for some of the attractions, it did not have the right opening and closing times - and it suggested a shortcut to the lines at the Lourve by getting off at the Tuileries metro stop. Unfortunately, this is one stop too early, but the street map easily showed us the way.

If you only want to carry one compact tour guide for Paris - I would highly recommend it.

Having just spent two weeks in the Paris area, I can highly recommend the AAA Paris Spiral Guide as a prime example of what a travel guide should be. It is concise, well organized and offers just the right amount of well thought out information. In other words for the traveler packing light, it doesn't weigh a ton.

While I do prefer the Eyewitness Guide series for pre-trip planning and research because of all of its excellent maps, photos, detailed information and "how-to" information, it was the AAA Spiral Guide that I carried around with me all over Paris. The Eyewitness Guide (my constant companion before the trip) never left the hotel room.

The AAA Spiral guide gives excellent suggestions about what are "must see" and "check out if you have time" attractions, and even suggests possible daily itineraries based on the geographic areas of Paris. I found that my list of "to do" was very similar to theirs. Also, most of the travel guides that I read had separate sections in the back for restaurants, shopping, hotels, etc. The AAA Spiral Guide organizes these topics into the different geographic areas of Paris. This was a much more logical and welcome organization in actual practice. The Guide also has a small but excellent section of "how to" information.

Overall, I am looking forward to using the AAA Spiral Guides again for future travels. I believe the title list is short at present, but hope to see it expand.

Bon Voyage!

Around and About Paris, Volume 1, reads pretty much like a medium-quality textbook; it's dense (*tiny* print and very small amounts of white space), it's informative (*filled* with trivia and fascinating - as well as not-so-fascinating - facts), and it's obtuse in places. The book does provide lots of information and some very nice Paris walks, but you'll have to sieve through a lot of junk to get to the meat of it.

The book's most serious problem, at least for me, is the writing. I suspect, though I don't know, that the author's English was a second language. The sentences are at times torturously constructed. Often, subjects and verbs are in places where a native English speaker probably wouldn't put them; sometimes one or the other is even missing - when you parse the sentence, you realize it's actually just a very long fragment, with lots of clauses that confuse the issue. Sometimes, too, it isn't clear what a modifier is supposed to be modifying, or which noun a pronoun refers to. In the worst cases, the meaning of a sentence cannot be divined at all because an error has been made at a crucial point. Some careful, detailed editing could've made this book a lot easier to read and use - and more informative, too.

However, there is still a lot of information in Around and About, even if you do have to work to get at it. The maps aren't the clearest in the world, but they're good enough, especially since prominent landmarks are marked. And the walks themselves provide an interesting take on Paris; the idea of walking through history is a great one. Parents with older children could probably use this as a resource for some very educational traveling, though I would recommend that the adults do the reading and then condense and prune somewhat for the kids.

All in all, despite the book's flaws, it's a nice supplementary resource for people visiting Paris - or those studying French history. You will, however, also want more conventional guidebooks or textbooks unless Paris and its history is already very familiar ground indeed.

After reading every travel guide I could get my hands on concerning Paris, France, finally I've found one that actually quenches my thirst and feeds my hunger! This is the Bible of Paris. The little details are so fascinating and exquisite, you can read this book over and over again. If I were stuck on a deserted island, as far from Paris as possible, I'd still want this to be one of the top five books I took with me. It would keep me going for a long, long time. Don't go to Paris without it. In fact, don't go to the doctor's office without it-- perfect to take everywhere.

I have never been able to appreciate history until Around and About Paris! Ms. Vallois has brought centuries of Paris history to life in the fun and interesting way she tells its stories. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about Paris than what's housed in the Louvre.

If you have read extensively about the Lost Generation and their Paris, then the McAlmon chapters will further illuminate what others have said. If you are fairly new to the subject, this book will bore you to tears with its laundry lists of who/what/where/exactly when and at what time so-and-so got drunk. I do not think Kay Boyle's chapters do anything but prove how odious she was.

This is a strangely, piercingly affecting book ostensibly by and about two largely forgotten writers among the "Lost Generation" of writers and artists in Paris in the 1920's. It is an emotionally engrossing tale, especially on Boyle's part, of what physical and emotional/spiritual sacrifices the life of the committed artist demands.-----Yes, there is plenty of name-dropping and stories concerning Pound, Joyce and Hemingway-But that hardly seems the point and neither does their art (except for Boyle, at times). This book is about what sort of People they were, how they lived their lives, both internally and externally.

The stereotype of the artist as a self-destructive martyr to his or her art is certainly on display here, but the characters aren't represented as hollow stereotypes (which themselves exist, after all, for very good reasons). They leap from the page as living, breathing people, and one gains an insight into the modus vivendi of each of them. And it must be said that, of the writers from that milieu that are still remembered today (mentioned above), only Joyce comes through as a lovable figure, and a good man, despite his drinking bouts.

The major achievement of this book is that it brings home the humanity of both Boyle and McAlmon as they lived their externally festive (especially McAlmon's), inwardly tormented (especially Boyle's) lives. There are several other aspects on which one could dwell, Mcalmon's generosity and relative selflessness (as written of by Boyle, not he), Boyle's supposedly more "Romantic" way of life and art (as written of by McAlmon, not she), but the main effect is that of laying out a physical and psychological tableau of their lives in the 1920's.-As McAlmon confesses, "It is a horrible admission, but some of us are driven to work at times to forget about living life. That creative urge, if you will, or is it that something remembered or contemplated is more entertaining than the actual scene and event being experienced? Somebody else spoke of Marsden as an 'eagle without a cliff', but aren't we all?"-Later he writes, "...we had moments of enjoying the sodden destruction of time in a weary world."---

As we look back on this supposedly "dated" attitude of those expatriate writers, can we really say that their actions and outlook were so dated? What artist or what person has not had thoughts or periods of life such as expressed above?---At one point in the book, McAlmon reports a fellow reveller at a Parisian cafe chiding him for his well-known generosity and telling him that he has "too much humanity." This is the only criticism that can be levelled at this book, if you choose to categorize it as such.

This is an evocative memoir -- much more substantive than many books exploring the lives of expats in Paris in the 20s & 30s.

Bistros are great for meat eaters; book doesn't point out whether any of the listed bistros will accommodate non-meat eaters. Stay away if foie gras, pork knuckles, and tripe don't turn you on.

Having lived in Europe for several years, traveling to Paris hundreds of times, I've found this book to be the most reliable way to find an excellent restaurant while out and about. These people really know and appreciate French cuisine.

Don't go to Paris without it!

This book is a goldmine for anyone who likes to eat. I've spent many weeks in Paris on business and on holiday over the last twenty years. I used the previous edition of the Hamburger's book to select places to take my Parisian clients! They were impressed and surprised. The new book has some real finds; places favored by neighborhood residents or in-the-know foodies. One of my favorites is La Grille, a tiny place on an out of the way street where madam runs the front and monsieur is in the kitchen. I crave the turbot with beurre blanc sauce as I write this.

The authors' knowledge of French cooking is extensive, covering the regional specialties. A nice thing about the way the book is written is that you don't have to be an expert on French food to understand it. Thanks to the clear and good descriptions of the food, I've tried many delicious dishes that I ordinarily would not have had the courage to order. The evaluations have always been on the mark. There are good descriptions of the décor and ambiance as well as of the food, so it is possible to select bistros to fit the occasion.

The recommendations do not seem to be influenced by what's "in" at the moment, but only by what's good to eat.

After reading this book it is inconceivable to me to wander about Paris blindly picking restaurants or asking the hotel desk clerk for a recommendation The layout of the book, listing places by arrondissement, makes it possible to choose a dinner spot near where I've spent the day. I also discovered that many bistro owners are aware of the book and are delighted when I tell them I learned about them from this book. Contrary to what some people say, it is possible to get a poor meal in Paris. But thanks to this book, it hasn't happened to me.

This book is mostly about cafes of the past. Very interesting reading if you're a fan of Sartre, Hemmingway, etc., & the book has plenty about those writers' cafe haunts & habits. But there's not much about what these cafes are like today or what modern cafes are the big literary hangouts.

The book, "Cafes of Paris," offers American tourists the cheapest and, I believe, the most entertaining and comfortable way to experience Paris, especially with the weak U.S. dollar. You can sit in a coffee shop for hours - reading and enjoying Paris street life - all for the price of a cup of coffee. Inexpensive lunches can be shared with friends in the cafe's casual atmosphere. The book is extremely well organized for the sight-seer; cafes are indexed by tourist attraction and arrondissement with the nearest metro stop and the price of a cup of coffee available at a glance. And if you aren't going to Paris, read the humorous anecdotes, descriptions of the decor, and the literary history of cafe life for a vicarious mini-vacation. Revised in 2000, prices have gone up but the richness of Paris cafe life will never be out of date.

I first had the pleasure of reading the Cafes of Paris guide book just last year as a young woman travelling to Paris for the first time. Since the book was written by my high-school English/Spanish teacher, Christine Graf, the greatest Spanish/English/French teacher of all time, it naturally was a masterpiece!! I recommend that everyone buy this book because she is forced to make her living as a school teacher, and the book is truly wonderful and has vital information for anyone who ever travels to Paris or dreams of travelling to Paris(the city of lights!!!)

I thoroughly enjoyed the book from cover to cover. I like how the book flowed easily from one chapter to the next.

In careful detail Mrs. Dodd brings the reader from the early 20th century to almost the end of it with her recollections of days gone by in and around Paris Crossing, Indiana.

I have never been to the small, quaint village of Paris Crossing, but Mrs. Dodd, through her writing, makes me wish that I have.

Mrs. Dodd departed this life nearly ten years ago, and I'm sure that she is still sorely missed in the Paris Crossing community by not only her family and friends, but also by those who only slightly knew her.

The pictures are truly incredible. One gets to see vintage and newer pictures of not only Mrs. Dodd and her husband, Eldo, but also those of the Dodd Funeral Home, the Dodd family, and some of the various artifacts once used by the Dodd firm.

Mrs. Dodd, with some help from family and friends, did an outstanding job of writing down the various happenings in both her life and her career as an undertaker's wife.

I am very glad I bought the book. It was very reasonably priced.

I knew cora Dodd and she was a very private and proper lady. This book tells the funny side of a rather serious business. all the time maintaining the privacy of the people involved. If you are from Paris Crossing Indiana or the surrounding area you will love the history of the area that she paints in her stories . If you are not from the area you will love the memories of a small town and how the people took care of each other. worth the time it takes to read and the money you spend.

If your looking for grim and gore, this is not the book. This is more a book of relationships in an unusual occupation. The grammer is somewhat askew, but that makes it more colorful.
I really enjoyed the first person account of the various incidents and the duties of the wife in rural Indiana.
It's really more of an uplifting book. This lady is truly a christian and her attitude toward life, and especially death has a claming effect on the reader.